16 OCTOBER 1915, page 21

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column does not necessarily producte subssquent review.] There is always something attractive about those books which are the work not of one man but of many,......

Readablei Novels.—susan Proudleigh. By Herbert G. De...

Co. 6s.)—Mr. de Lisser's story takes place in Jamaica and Panama. It is amusing, but certainly lacking in refinement and brilliancy.—The Caves of Spend. 13y David Hennessy.......

The Captive. By Phyllis Bottoms. (chapman And Hall....

is wise. She lifts us right away into the middle of her story. She gives us no opportunity to criticize, no time to feel bored : there we are, suddenly planted down in that......

Fiction.

THE EXTRA DAY.t No reviewer, however hard he tried, could ever succeed in making clear to the general public what Mr. Blackwood's new story is all about. It is so insane, yet so......

The Kennedy People. By W. Pett Ridge. (methuen And Co.

6s.) — Robert Kennedy, son of old Mr. Kennedy of the firm in Canonbury Square, has bad. to auote his sister, "advantages that poor Pa never, never had." He works at an office,......

There Are Four Brilliant Little Illustrations In Colour...

number of delicate half-tone photographs in With the Flowers and Trees in California (G rant Richards, 7s. 6d. net), and certainly the fields of poppy, blazing with their yellow......